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She Will Not Stop Until Every Haitian Is Gone. And She’s Happy to Tell You Why.
“No one seemed to be concerned about ‘heritage citizens.
Unfortunately, I Must Hand It to the Trump Administration in This One Instance
A monopoly on mortgages is finally loosening. Homebuyers aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit.
Money Talks: The Real Threats of Artificial Intelligence
What’s alarmist and what’s real about artificial intelligence. Plus, how lawmakers are dealing with a situation they don’t really understand.
Musk and Zuck: Can They Have It All?
Meta makes a deal to keep Zuckerberg happy as Musk eyes a power-consolidating merger.
‘Contrary to law’: Judge strikes down Trump admin’s definition of ‘medically frail’ in Medicaid work requirements
The judge sided with a coalition of 25 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit challenging the requirement that states force chronically ill people to prove they can’t work.
The Trump administration moves to treat millions of mentally ill veterans with psychedelics
No regulator has found the drugs safe or effective, but a VA official says as many as 2.1 million ex-service members could find them helpful.
Exit of RFK Jr. ally widens rift in GOP tent
Calley Means’ departure is the latest sign that Kennedy’s supporters are unhappy with how the White House is treating them.
Biotech investment is the new front in the U.S.-China trade fight
The Treasury Department’s proposed restrictions on U.S. investment in Chinese biopharma collide with Beijing’s new export curbs on cutting edge biotech innovations.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Australian treasurer says opponents want higher inflation for political gain
In a Canberra Playbook Podcast interview Jim Chalmers accused Liberals of wanting Australians to suffer, as their path back to power.
Rising bond yields will add billions to budget pressure: Australian treasurer
Jim Chalmers warns global pressures mean more domestic pain.
Sen. Kennedy rails against AI developers as ‘high IQ stupid people’
The Louisiana Republican’s comments come as both Democrats and Republicans have been forced to find ways to address the backlash against data centers.
Meet AI Engineer Who Resigned from DeepMind over “Google’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide”
Several tech workers at Google’s AI unit DeepMind have resigned in protest over the tech giant’s work with the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Last week, DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori announced her resignation in a letter to her colleagues titled “Stay Human.” She denounced what she called “Google’s complicity in the Gaza genocide” and the increasing integration of Google’s technology into military and surveillance systems.
“She Was a Fighter”: Dolores Huerta, Legendary Farmworker Organizer & Activist, Dies at 96
Immigrant rights and labor icon Dolores Huerta died Wednesday at the age of 96. Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 and then the United Farm Workers of America, working with Cesar Chavez. From 1965 to 1970, the union organized the historic Delano grape strike, which ended in major gains for farmworkers’ labor rights.
A Very Bad 24 Hours for Crypto
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Last night, hackers stole approximately $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The whole thing reportedly took about 20 minutes. It was the biggest theft in the history of the sector, and also probably the biggest financial heist of all time, topping the $1.
The State Department Is in Disarray
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Many a heavy-handed metaphor has been constructed on the claim that Washington, D.C., is built on a swamp. This hoary cliché is also, for the most part, untrue—but the neighborhood Foggy Bottom, home to the State Department, really is former marshland.
This is perhaps fitting.
When a Movie Hinges on a Kid’s Performance
The film Josephine opens with one of the most upsetting sequences in any movie this year. In it, the titular 8-year-old girl accidentally witnesses a woman being raped at a park near her home.
The Internet Might Need to Be Rebuilt From Scratch
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AI hacking swarms are poking holes across the internet at such a rate that some cybersecurity professionals have dubbed this month “Black October.” The AI-cybersecurity professional Alex Stamos argues that it’s time to be proactive rather than reactive, and that might mean rewriting the code for the internet in newer programming languages that could make all of our online systems and personal information safer.
The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing
Weak scholarship was once easy to spot at a glance: The signs included bad writing, a lack of relevant citations, and little engagement with previous scholarship, such as a paper that promised a “novel” conceptual framework without acknowledging the many other papers making similar claims. As an associate editor of a bioethics journal, I’d make a quick “desk reject” decision and not send these articles for peer review, which effectively killed any hope of publication.
“Ungrounding”: Eyal Weizman on Gaza Genocide & Israel’s “Permanent Architecture of Control”
We speak with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman about his new book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, a meticulous investigation into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the physical destruction of the territory and its impact on the Palestinian people.
Forensic Architecture was founded in 2010 as an interdisciplinary research group focused on investigating state violence and human rights violations.
RFK Jr.’s making a lot of friends in Iowa
The former presidential candidate says he’s not running in 2028, but he’s doing everything he can to help Iowa candidates.
We Bought a House. We Had Help From My Husband’s Parents. It Was One of the Biggest Mistakes We’ve Ever Made.
We gave up what makes life meaningful in order to do it.
She Will Not Stop Until Every Haitian Is Gone. And She’s Happy to Tell You Why.
“No one seemed to be concerned about ‘heritage citizens.
Unfortunately, I Must Hand It to the Trump Administration in This One Instance
A monopoly on mortgages is finally loosening. Homebuyers aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit.
Money Talks: The Real Threats of Artificial Intelligence
What’s alarmist and what’s real about artificial intelligence. Plus, how lawmakers are dealing with a situation they don’t really understand.